Part I. Generation of Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Compact Femtosecond Oscillators
W.Sibbett, B.Agate, C.T.A.Brown, A.A.Lagatsky,
C.G.Leburn, B.Stormont, E.U.Rafailov ......................... 3
Novel 10- to 40-GHz Telecom Pulse Generating Sources with
High Average Power
G.J.Spühler, L.Krainer, S.Lecomte, S.C.Zeller,
K.J.Weingarten, R.Paschotta, U.Keller ....................... 23
Single-Cycle Optical Pulses Produced by Coherent Molecular
Oscillations
A.V.Sokolov ................................................. 37
A Robust New Concept for Octave-Spanning Chirped Mirrors
with Minimal Dispersion Ripple
Günter Steinmeyer ........................................ 49
10-fs, Diode-Pumped Cr:LiCAF Laser
Philipp Wagenblast, Richard Ell, Uwe Morgner, Felix
Grawert, Franz Kártner ...................................... 55
Broadband Phase-Coherent Optical Frequency Synthesis With
Actively Linked Ti:Sapphire and Cr:Forsterite Femtosecond
Lasers
A.Bartels, N.R.Newbury, I.Thomann, L.Hollberg,
S.A.Diddams ................................................. 61
Synthesis of Optical Frequencies and Ultrastable Femtosecond
Pulse Trains from an Optical Reference Oscillator
A. Bartels, T.M. Ramond, S.A. Diddams, L.Hollberg ........... 69
Generation of 14.8-fs Pulses in a Spatially Dispersive
Amplifier
C.P.Hauri, M.Bruck, W.Kornelis,J. Biegert, U.Keller ......... 75
A Sub-10-Femtosecond Terawatt-Scale Ti:sapphire Laser System
Jozsef Seres, Enikó Seres, Christian Spielmann,
Ferenc Krausz ............................................... 81
Direct Generation of 12-fs Pulses from a Ti:sapphire
Chirped-Pulse Amplification System
Hideyuki Takada, Masayuki Kakehata, Kenji Torizuka .......... 87
Generation of 3.8-fs Pulses Through Adaptive Cascaded Hollow
Fiber Compression
J.Biegert, B.Schenkel, U.Keller, C.Vozzi, M.Nisoli,
G.Sansone, S.Stagira, S.De Silvestri, 0.Svelto .............. 91
Generation and Characterization of 3.4-fs Optical Pulses
with Over-One-Octave Bandwidth
Keisaku Yamane, Zhigang Zhang, Akira Suguro, Kazuhiko Oka,
Ryuji Morita, Mikio Yamashita ............................... 97
Part II. Measurement and Shaping of Femtosecond Pulses
Acousto-Optic Spectral Filtering of Femtosecond Laser Pulses
D.Kaplan, P.Tournois ....................................... 105
Adaptive Femtosecond Quantum Control
T.Brixner, C.Dietl, G.Krampert, P.Niklaus,
E.Papastathopoulos, T.Pfeifer, R.Selle, G.Vogt,
D.Walter, С.Winterfeldt, G.Gerber .......................... 119
Measuring Spatial Chirp and Pulse-Front Tilt in Ultrashort
Pulses Using Single-Shot FROG
Selçuk Aktürk, Mark Kimmel, Patrick O'Shea,
Rick Trebino ............................................... 129
Measurements of Ultracomplex and Ultraweak Pulses with FROG
Qiang Cao, Aparna P. Shreenath, Stephan Link, Xun Gu,
Jing-yuan Zhang, Erik Zeek, Mark Kimmel, Rick Trebino,
Mostafa El-Sayed ........................................... 135
Few-cycle Pulse Diagnostics Using Plateau Harmonics
Vladislav S.Yakovlev, Armin Scrinzi ........................ 143
Part III. Measurement and Control of the Carrier-Envelope Phase
Carrier-Envelope Phase Stabilization of Modelocked Lasers
Таrа M.Fortier, David J.Jones, Jun Ye,
Steven T.Cundiff ........................................... 151
Frontiers of Carrier-Envelope Stabilization Schemes for
Femtosecond Oscillators
Günter Steinmeyer, Florian W.Helbing,
Ursula Keller .............................................. 165
Direct Locking of the Carrier-Envelope Phase of Femtosecond
Laser Pulses
Tae Jun Yu, Jong-Min Lee, Yong Soo Lee, Kyung-Han Hong,
Chang Нее Nam .............................................. 171
Ultrafast-Laser Stabilization with Application to Pulse
Amplification by Use of Passive Optical Cavities
R. Jason Jones, Kevin Holman, Jun Ye, Eric Potma,
X. Sunney Xie .............................................. 179
Solid-State Carrier-Envelope Phase Detector
P.Dombi, A.Apolonski, G.G.Paulus, M.Kakehata,
K.Torizuka, R.Holzwarth, Th.Udem, Ch.Lemell,
J.Burgdörfer, T.W.Hänsch, F.Krausz ......................... 185
Selection of Pulses Having a Constant Carrier-Envelope Phase
from a Relatively Noisy Mode-Locked Oscillator
Masayuki Kakehata, Yoshihiko Fujihira, Yohei Kobayashi,
Hideyuki Takada, Tetsuya Homma, Hideo Takahashi,
Kenji Torizuka ............................................. 191
Carrier Envelope Phase Measurement Using a Non Phase Stable
Laser
K. O'Keeffe, J.Seres, E.Seres, H.Drexel, V.Grill,
F.Krausz, M.Lezius ......................................... 197
Stabilization and Characterization of the Carrier-Envelope
Phase in Intense Few-Cycle Pulses
A.Baltuska, M.Uiberacker, E.Goulielmakis, Th.Udem,
M.Hentschel, R.Kienberger, R.Holzwarth,
T.W.Hänsch, F. Krausz ...................................... 203
Measurement of the Absolute Phase of few-Cycle Laser Pulses
F.Lindner, G.G.Paulus, H.Walther, A.Baltuska,
E.Goulielmakis, M.Lezius, F.Krausz ......................... 209
Part IV. Extreme UV Radiation and Sub-Femtosecond Pulses
Quasi-Phase-Matching of High Harmonic EUV Generation at Very
High Ionization Levels
E.A.Gibson, A.Paul, N.L.Wagner, R.Tobey, E.Gagnon,
D.Gaudiosi, M.M.Murnane, H.C.Kapteyn, L.P.Christov ......... 217
Enhancement and Tuning of High-Order Harmonic Generation
Using Adaptive Pulse Shaping
D.H.Reitze, S.Kazamias, F.Weihe, G.Mullot,
D.Douillet, F.Аugé, 0.Albert, V.Ramanathan,
J.P.Chambaret, D.Hulin, P.Balcou ........................... 223
Multilayer EUV Optics for Applications of Ultrashort High
Harmonic Pulses
Th.Westerwalbesloh, U.Kleineberg, Y.C.Lim,
P.Siffalovic, M.Drescher, U.Heinzmann ...................... 229
Absolute-Phase Effects of Few-Optical-Cycle Light Pulses in
Single-Shot High Order Harmonic Spectra
M.Nisoli, G.Sansone, S.Stagira, S.De Silvestri,
C.Vozzi, M.Pascolini, L.Poletto, P.Villoresi,
G.Tondello ................................................. 235
Reproducible Generation and Measurement of Isolated Sub-fs
XUV Pulses with Phase-Controlled Few-Cycle Light
R.Kienberger, E.Goulielmakis, A.Baltuska,
M.Uiberacker, Th.Westerwalbesloh, U.Kleineberg,
U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher, F. Krausz ....................... 241
Controlling High-Harmonic Generation via Molecular Alignment
D.Zeidler. J.Levesque, J.Itatani, K.Lee, P.Dooley,
I.Litvinyuk, D.M.Villeneuve. P.B.Corkum .................... 247
Towards Attosecond Half-Cycle Pulses
Emil Persson, Severin Puschkarski, Xiao-Min Tong,
Joachim Burgdörfer ......................................... 253
Temporal Characterization of Attosecond Pulses
F.Quéré. J.Itatani, G.L.Yudin, P.B.Corkum .................. 259
Techniques for Temporal Characterization of Ultrafast XUV
Radiation
Taro Sekikawa, Teruto Kanai, Shuntaro Watanabe ............. 271
Characterization of Attosecond Electromagnetic Pulses
Ellen M.Kosik, Eric Cormier, Christophe Dorrer,
Ian A.Walmsley, Louis F.DiMauro ............................ 285
Characterization of Attosecond Laser Pulses Using Angle-
resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy
S.Aseyev. Y.Ni, L.J.Frasinski, H.G.Muller,
M.J.J.Vrakking ............................................. 293
Part V. Ultraintense Pulses, Hard X-Ray Generation and
Particle Acceleration
Isolated Attosecond Pulse Generation in the Relativistic
λ3 Regime by Reflection/Deflection/Compression
G.A.Mourou, N.M.Naumova, I.V.Sokolov, В.Ноu,
J.A.Nees ................................................... 303
Diode-Pumped Regenerative Amplifier Front End for the
Petawatt Laser Chain at LULI
N.Forget, C.Felix, E.Baynard, C.Le Blanc, V.Bagnoud,
X.Ribeyre, L.Videau ........................................ 315
The Petawatt Laser Glass Chain at LULI: Technical Issues
and First Results
C. Le Blanc, C.Felix, N.Forget, J.C.Lagron,
Ph.Hollander, A.M.Sautivet, C.Sauteret, A.Migus ............ 321
High Repetition Rate Femtosecond Laser Driven Hard X-Ray
Source and its Application for Diffraction Experiments
N.Zhavoronkov, Y.Gritsai, P.Mikheev, A.Savelev,
R.Bernath, G.Коrn, Т.Elsaesser ............................. 325
Generation, Amplitude and Phase Characterization of
1021W/cm2 Intensity
S.-W.Bahk, V.Chvykov, G.Kalintchenko, A.Maksimchuk,
G.A.Mourou, N.Saleh, V.Yanovsky ............................ 329
Ultrafast Hard X-Rays from Electron Accelerators
P.H.Bucksbaum, D.A.Reis, J.Hastings ........................ 333
Amplification of Multikilovolt Xe(L) Hollow Atom Transitions
with Xe Clusters in Confined Plasma Channels
Alex B.Borisov, Xiangyang Song, Yevgeniya Koshman, Jack
Davis, Yang Dai, Keith Boyer, Charles K.Rhodes ............. 341
Asymmetric Pulse Shapes in Grating-Based CPA Compressors
and Optimal Electron Acceleration in Plasmas
Csaba Tóth, Jerome Faure, Jeroen van Tilborg,
Cameron G.R.Geddes, Carl B.Schroeder, Eric Esarey,
Wim P.Leemans .............................................. 349
Part VI. Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics
Progress in Chirped Pulse Optical Parametric Amplifiers
R.Butkus, R.Danielius, A.Dubietis, A.Piskarskas ............ 357
Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification in
Periodically-Poled KTiOP04 at 1053 nm
Igor Jovanovic, Jason R.Schmidt, Christoper A.Ebbers ....... 367
Nonlinear Phase-Locking of Parametric Optical Processes:
the Sliding Resonance Effect
J.T.Mendonça, H.Crespo ..................................... 373
Low Threshold, High Repetition Frequency, Femtosecond
Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on Chirped-Pulse
Frequency Conversion
Karl A.Tillman, Derryck T.Reid, D.Artigas,
J.Hellström, V.Pasiskevicius, F.Laurell .................... 385
Generation of sub-20 fs Tunable Visible Pulses from a 100 kHz
NOPA For Measuring Ultrafast Heterogeneous Electron Transfer
R.Ernstorfer, L.Gundlach, C.Zimmermann, F.Willig,
R.Eichberger, E.Riedle ..................................... 393
Broadband Sum-Frequency Mixing for Indirect Phase Control of
UV Pulses With a Sub-20-Fs TW-Class TirSapphire Laser System
Yasuo Nabekawa, Katsumi Midorikawa ......................... 399
New Generation of Photoconductive Few-Cycle Terahertz Emitters
J.Darmo, G.Strasser, T.Roch, T.Müller,
K.Unterrainer, G.Tempea, T.He, A.Stingl .................... 405
Magnetic-Field Induced Enhancement of THz-Radaiation from
InAs Irradiated with 0.8 μm Laser up to 27 T and InSb
Irradiated with 1.56 μm Laser up to 5 T
H.Takahashi, A.Quema, M.Goto, S.Ono, N.Sarukura ............ 411
Part VII. Novel Applications of Ultrashort Light Pulses
Ultrafast Electron Diffraction
Vladimir A.Lobastov, Ramesh Srinivasan, Franco Vigliotti,
Chong-Yu Ruan, Jonathan S.Feenstra, Songye Chen, Sang
T.Park, Shoujun Xu, Ahmed H.Zewail ......................... 419
Some Medical and Biological Applications of Ultrafast Lasers
S.Svanberg ................................................. 437
Adaptive Control of Two-Photon Excitation of Green
Fluorescent Protein with Shaped Femtosecond Pulses
Hiroyuki Kawano, Yasuo Nabekawa, Akira Suda, Yu Oishi,
Hideaki Mizuno, Atsushi Miyawaki, Katsumi Midorikawa ....... 449
Highly Efficient Second-Harmonic Nanosource by Femtosecond
Pulse Irradiation of a Metal Tip
M.Zavelani-Rossi, M.Labardi, D.Polli, G.Cerullo,
S. De Silvestri, M.Allegrini, 0.Svelto ..................... 455
Femtosecond Electron Optics: Towards Atomically Resolved
Transition States
Bradley J. Siwick, Jason R. Dwyer, Robert E. Jordan,
Christoph T. Hebeisen, R.J. Dwayne Miller .................. 461
Application of High-Harmonic Radiation for EUV
Interferometry and Spectroscopy
M.Wieland, Ch.Spielmann, U.Kleineberg, U.Heinzmann,
T.Wilhein .................................................. 467
Time-Resolved Inner Shell Spectroscopy with Sub-fs EUV Pulses
M.Drescher, M.Hentschel, R.Kienberger, M.Uiberacker,
V.Yakovlev, A.Scrinzi, Th.Westerwalbesloh,
U.Kleineberg, U.Heinzmann, F.Krausz ........................ 475
A Quantum Theory of Time-Resolved Auger Measurement
Olga Smirnova, Vladislav S.Yakovlev, Armin Scrinzi ......... 483
Laser Induced Nuclear Reactions
Friederike Ewald, Heinrich Schwoerer, Joseph Magill,
Jean Galy, Roland Schenkel, Roland Sauerbrey ............... 489
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